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December 7, 2005
RITZ CARLTON
1150 22nd Street, NW Washington, DC
Japan International Transport Institute
Institute under the Auspices of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
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Japan International Tranport Institute
Catherine Gilbert
1819 L STREET, N.W. SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE:+1- 202-833-9763
FAX: +1-202-833-9769
jiti@japantransport.com
www.japantransport.com
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Activities of our institute are made possible through the generous assistance of the Nippon Foundation. |
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Dr. Alan J. Lipton
Chief Technology Officer, ObjectVideo
Dr. Lipton is the chief technology officer at ObjectVideo, where
he applies video understanding technologies to commercial applications
that include video compression and video surveillance.
From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Lipton was a member of the research faculty
at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in
Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a project co-manager of DARPA’sVSAM
project. This project developed automated, real-time algorithms
that guide a network of active video sensors to monitor the
activities of people and vehicles in complex scenes.
He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 1996. For his
thesis, he studied the problem of vision-based mobile robot
navigation using natural landmarks.
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